FORT MOJAVE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. – The barren landscape of the Fort Mojave reservation south of Hoover Dam receives less than seven inches of rain a year. It’s a tough place to eke out a living, ...

An amicus brief was filed before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe in South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue. The brief calls on ...

Water is life, especially in the desert. The Indigenous people of the area today known as Southern Nevada know this. The Las Vegas Wash, for example, was once an important trading ground for the ...

LOS ANGELES — On a remote reservation along the Arizona-Nevada border, a power company and an Indian tribe are blazing a trail in the battle to boost energy supplies. Calpine Corp. has joined forces ...

Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver State ...

A water well at Cadiz Ranch in the Mojave Desert. As downtown-based water infrastructure company Cadiz Inc. is well into the third decade of its pursuit of a massive water storage and transfer project ...

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